Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion
- Release Date: 06/15/07
- Director(S): Stephen Fell, Will Thompson
- Run Time: 1 hr. 41 min
- MPAA RATING: (NR)
- GENRE: Documentary
- STUDIO: First Run Features
“We are there as history is unfolding before us. It’s the purest form of the documentary medium.” - Brian Huberman, author Documentary Production
“CRITIC'S CHOICE! Whatever your views on abortion...you need to hear the subjects of this film, if only to be able to fight them more effectively.” - David Edelstein, New York Magazine“…the first unbiased look at one of the most controversial social issues in America.”
- Rice Sallyport Magazine
“Fell and Thompson spent 13 months traveling to 33 states filming right-to-life protests, marches and fundraising efforts.” - Laura Kelso, Austin Film Festival issue/Brilliant magazine
Synopsis
A revealing and provocative look into the deep secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement, UNBORN IN THE USA: Inside the War on Abortion weaves a riveting story from more than 70 exclusive interviews with pro-life activists and seldom-seen archival footage to document one of the most controversial social movements in American history. Filmmakers Stephen Fell and Will Thompson gained unprecedented access to pro-life groups, movement icons, fundraising machines, and even university students being specially groomed to carry the pro-life message for college credit, traveling across 35 states to bring us this eye-opening, often startling story
本片记录了反堕胎人士的一些活动，影片开始时，就是在一个教室内，Stephen Fell和Will Thompson还有学生在一起讨论，但是影片前十分钟的镜头晃动很让人郁闷。而且影片太注重让观众加入到pro-life(反堕胎)运动中去，制作者高涨的热情，有些过度且给予某种侵略性的认同，让人会有一些厌烦，在整个宣传活动中，他们的足迹遍及35个州，但是，相同的口号，相同的海报，尤其是那个血淋淋孩子婴儿的照片，单调感也偶然而生。影片中将十字架上的Jesus举向天空时，“The Passion of the Christ”，导演也提到这个镜头不是令人愉快的，但是对于反对者造成的影响力，还算是一个小小的胜利吧。纵观全片，去掉Boring，还是能够让观众有些触动的。
Read the interview with co-directors Stephen Fell and Will Thompsonin IndieWire.
NEW YORK REVIEW
It's hard to believe anyone could watch the devastating documentary Unborn in the USA without wanting, at some point, to run screaming from the theater. It began as a thesis project by two students at Rice University, Stephen Fell and Will Thompson, who chronicle, without judgment, the activities of anti-abortion activists, from the most sorrowful to the most righteously murderous. Fell and Thompson largely concentrate on the people who stand on street corners and college campuses with blown-up pictures of aborted fetuses. These activists are getting smarter about engaging their foes—they take classes in empathy. They let those photos do most of the talking. At one point, the filmmakers cut between the erection of the billboards and the lifting of the gore-drenched Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Let's rub their noses in the horror.
Where do Fell and Thompson stand? With the exception of one title card—in which they demolish a woman's emotional assertion that having an abortion gave her breast cancer—they are rigorously objective. I'm sad to say that through the eyes of the movie's subjects the pro-choice activists come off as glib, unfeeling, and profane. The most harrowing sequence is saved for the end: A young woman becomes so distraught by the sight of these pictures that she slaps the minister who engages her and is taken away in handcuffs. But whatever your views on abortion (mine are extremely tangled), you need to hear the subjects of this film, if only to be able to fight them more effectively. —Reviewed by David Edelstein, New York Magazine
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一个很有深意的动画，原文中(A woman’s rights end at the door of the abortion clinic)是JPG图片轮循，我已经做成GIF动画了。
可能是UNborn in the USA的官网
网址：http://www.unbornintheusa.org/
A revealing and provocative look into the deep secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement, UNBORN IN THE USA: Inside the War on Abortion weaves a riveting story from more than 70 exclusive interviews with pro-life activists and seldom-seen archival footage to document one of the most controversial social movements in American history. Filmmakers Stephen Fell and Will Thompson gained unprecedented access to pro-life groups, movement icons, fundraising machines, and even university students being specially groomed to carry the pro-life message for college credit, traveling across 35 states to bring us this eye-opening, often startling story
本片记录了反堕胎人士的一些活动，影片开始时，就是在一个教室内，Stephen Fell和Will Thompson还有学生在一起讨论，但是影片前十分钟的镜头晃动很让人郁闷。而且影片太注重让观众加入到pro-life(反堕胎)运动中去，制作者高涨的热情，有些过度且给予某种侵略性的认同，让人会有一些厌烦，在整个宣传活动中，他们的足迹遍及35个州，但是，相同的口号，相同的海报，尤其是那个血淋淋孩子婴儿的照片，单调感也偶然而生。影片中将十字架上的Jesus举向天空时，“The Passion of the Christ”，导演也提到这个镜头不是令人愉快的，但是对于反对者造成的影响力，还算是一个小小的胜利吧。纵观全片，去掉Boring，还是能够让观众有些触动的。
Read the interview with co-directors Stephen Fell and Will Thompsonin IndieWire.
NEW YORK REVIEW
It's hard to believe anyone could watch the devastating documentary Unborn in the USA without wanting, at some point, to run screaming from the theater. It began as a thesis project by two students at Rice University, Stephen Fell and Will Thompson, who chronicle, without judgment, the activities of anti-abortion activists, from the most sorrowful to the most righteously murderous. Fell and Thompson largely concentrate on the people who stand on street corners and college campuses with blown-up pictures of aborted fetuses. These activists are getting smarter about engaging their foes—they take classes in empathy. They let those photos do most of the talking. At one point, the filmmakers cut between the erection of the billboards and the lifting of the gore-drenched Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Let's rub their noses in the horror.
Where do Fell and Thompson stand? With the exception of one title card—in which they demolish a woman's emotional assertion that having an abortion gave her breast cancer—they are rigorously objective. I'm sad to say that through the eyes of the movie's subjects the pro-choice activists come off as glib, unfeeling, and profane. The most harrowing sequence is saved for the end: A young woman becomes so distraught by the sight of these pictures that she slaps the minister who engages her and is taken away in handcuffs. But whatever your views on abortion (mine are extremely tangled), you need to hear the subjects of this film, if only to be able to fight them more effectively. —Reviewed by David Edelstein, New York Magazine
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一个很有深意的动画，原文中(A woman’s rights end at the door of the abortion clinic)是JPG图片轮循，我已经做成GIF动画了。
可能是UNborn in the USA的官网
网址：http://www.unbornintheusa.org/
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